triviality
i have a new favorite day. you can keep your red beans and rice mondays, your thirsty thursdays, 24ยข night tuesdays, happy hour fridays, big cup wednesdays, and whatever other days you may have. i now live and die for trivia night at friar tucks. from now on, wednesday nights, that is where you'll be able to find mike and i- relaxing at the bar, putting back a few beers, and, just for kicks, winning ourselves $2oo bar tabs. last night, he and i wandered down to tucks, not exactly sure what to expect, thinking that it might kinda fun, but not really thinking we had a chance of winning. we went in, sat down, took a look at our competition, and our expectations fell a bit more. every table was full, as well as the bar, all teams that had at least 4-5 people, often closer to 10, plus they were all older, late twenties at least. here we were, two teenagers, no clue what we were doing, going up against experienced trivia people. well, we sat down at the bar, ordered a couple beers, and got ready for the first round.
**side note- game rules: there are four rounds, with ten questions each. the announcer asks each question in a round separately, and we write down the answers on the sheet provided. each correct answer is worth one point. of the four rounds, we have one joker, which we can use to double the points received that round. as there is only one, when it is used can be very important. points are tallied after every round. the points from each round are added together, and the winner is the team with the most after four rounds. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place all win prizes.**
so, anyway, first round comes around, and the questions, while definitely trivial, aren't as hard as we expected. we turn in our sheet, and start to relax a little. few minutes later, the scores after the first round are announced. much to our surprise, we're in 5th place, out of about 12 teams. we start to realize we can actually do this. second round, we rock it. we only missed two of the possible points, plus we used our joker to double our points. all of a sudden, mike and i are in first place, with a good chance to win. round three, however, kills us. not that we did bad, just mediocre. unfortunately, that's enough to drop us a little. last round, we did good again, bringing us back up to 4th place, just out of the money. final results, we were one point behind third, 3 behind second, and 5 behind first. not bad for our first time. we actually could have won it, cuz we had at leas 7 questions that we had right, but changed our answers at the last minutes. still, the important thing is that two freshman held our own against all of those seniors and grad students. we know that we can win this thing, and we will be soon. there's one more trivia night left this year, then it starts again next fall. if all goes to plan, mike and i won't be paying for drinks ever again.
**side note- game rules: there are four rounds, with ten questions each. the announcer asks each question in a round separately, and we write down the answers on the sheet provided. each correct answer is worth one point. of the four rounds, we have one joker, which we can use to double the points received that round. as there is only one, when it is used can be very important. points are tallied after every round. the points from each round are added together, and the winner is the team with the most after four rounds. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place all win prizes.**
so, anyway, first round comes around, and the questions, while definitely trivial, aren't as hard as we expected. we turn in our sheet, and start to relax a little. few minutes later, the scores after the first round are announced. much to our surprise, we're in 5th place, out of about 12 teams. we start to realize we can actually do this. second round, we rock it. we only missed two of the possible points, plus we used our joker to double our points. all of a sudden, mike and i are in first place, with a good chance to win. round three, however, kills us. not that we did bad, just mediocre. unfortunately, that's enough to drop us a little. last round, we did good again, bringing us back up to 4th place, just out of the money. final results, we were one point behind third, 3 behind second, and 5 behind first. not bad for our first time. we actually could have won it, cuz we had at leas 7 questions that we had right, but changed our answers at the last minutes. still, the important thing is that two freshman held our own against all of those seniors and grad students. we know that we can win this thing, and we will be soon. there's one more trivia night left this year, then it starts again next fall. if all goes to plan, mike and i won't be paying for drinks ever again.
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